Create a new Java object

Creates a new Java object and invokes the constructor with given arguments.

Methods

new

signature(Class = "jclassName"): ...

Details

The new method is used as the high-level API to create new Java objects (for low-level access see .jnew). It returns the newly created Java object.

... arguments are passed to the constructor of the class specified as J("class.name").

Examples

if (FALSE) {
v <- new(J("java.lang.String"), "Hello World!")
v$length()
v$indexOf("World")
names(v)
}